2015PreliminaryConfProgDraft

Room: 7Chair: J. E. Smyth (University of Warwick)Ina Hark (University of South Carolina), "Shirley Temple and Hollywood’s Colonialist Ideology"Anna Siomopoulos (Bentley University), "Lincoln, Juarez, and FDR: The Welfare State Rhetoric of Sympathy andHollywood Films of the 1930s"Brian Neve (University of Bath), "Our Daily Bread and the Limits of Thirties Political Imagining"Respondent: Catherine Jurca (California Institute of Technology)D8: New Takes on DeleuzeRoom: 8Chair: Chang-Min Yu (University of Iowa)Joshua Jordan (New York University), "Cinema at the Speed of Thought: Henri Michaux and Images of aVisionary World"Lakshmi Padmanabhan (Brown University), "Mani Kaul’s Time Image: Deleuzian Aesthetics and Indian FilmHistory"Chang-Min Yu (University of Iowa), "Bodies of/in Excess: An Underexplored Dimension of European ModernistFilms"D9: Cinema's Visual Worlds: Dream-scapes, Set Design, and the PictorialRoom: 9Chair: Susan Felleman (University of South Carolina)Cary Elza (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point), "Unus Mundus Artis: Guillermo del Toro and Neo-BaroqueWorld-Building"Shelton Wakdrep (University of Southern Maine), "Un-moving Pictures: Stanley Kubrick, James Bond, and thePictorial"Simran Bhalla (Northwestern University), "Through an Opera Glass, Darkly: Gendered Design in Charulata andGhare Baire"Susan Felleman (University of South Carolina), "Source Hunting in a Dreamscape"D10: Transnational Cinemas: South Korea, Japan, and BeyondRoom: 10Chair: Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University)Co-Chair: David Scott Diffrient (Colorado State University)Sangjoon Lee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), "The Asia Foundation, Japan, and the SouthKorean Film Industry in the 1950s"Minhwa Ahn (University of Minnesota), "Magical Realism and Female Fantasy in Kim Kiyoung’s Films: A CrossculturalReading of Japanese Films during the Postwar Period"Nathaniel Heneghan (University of Southern California), "Alterity and Excess in the Works of Sai Yoichi"Ji-yoon An (University of Cambridge), "Home and Away: Adoption and Diaspora in A Brand New Life (2009) andTreeless Mountain (2009)"D11: Music Screens, Music Stars, Music Scenes